Day 3: Showfloor



While last year the first showfloor picture I took was the friendly David Willmott from Infomagic, I had to do something different this year: I took David Willmott from Linuxcare :-)

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As you can see, reports of Slackware's death were greatly exagerated
Patrick Volkerding is still there and Slackware is still going :-)

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Leonard Zubkoff and Linus talking about
how they could con into rewriting the Linux SCSI layer
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VA had "ask the expert" session where you could come at a certain time and talk to various linux developers. Similarly, Linuxcare had well known hackers giving talks every day (I just felt bad for Jes Sorensen when he had to give his one hour kernel talk to people who didn't get a word of it :-)).

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One cool booth was the Pocket Linux one, where they ported linux to several PDAs and offered a programming platform based on Java (Kaffe) and XML so that your apps would run regardless of what CPU the PDA had.

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The ODSN booth gave boatloads of Slink and a half CDs and featured all the OSDN web sites (sourceforge, linux.com, slashdot, freshmeat, thinkgeek...). They did all kinds of fun things, like dubbed movies in real time and more...

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The allied BSD booth was impressive, and they did attract a lot of attention :-)

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You can't say they didn't have compelling reasons to get you to visit :-)



Of course, there were many, many booths. A few are listed here:

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and if you want to see the other showfloor pictures, there is a total of 73 in the picture library

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